AT WAR WITH THE TRUTH U.S. authorities continually said they were gaining ground. They were not, and they knew it, a restrictive Post examination found. A The records were produced by a government project analyzing the root disappointments of the longest outfitted struggle in U.S. history. They incorporate in excess of 2,000 pages of already unpublished notes of meetings with individuals who assumed an immediate part in the conflict, from commanders and ambassadors to help laborers and Afghan officials. Confidential store of government archives acquired by The Washington Post uncovers that senior U.S. authorities neglected to come clean with regards to the conflict in Afghanistan all through the 18-year crusade, making blushing proclamations they knew to be bogus and concealing indisputable proof the conflict had become unwinnable.